音乐Music[英语名人名言]_名人名言

音乐Music[英语名人名言]

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A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune¹.

There's nothing remarkable³ about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

-- Johann Sebastian Bach

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

-- Samuel Butler

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

-- G. K. Chesterton

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

-- George Clemenceau

Music is the art of thinking with sounds.

-- Jules Combarieu

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, "No."

-- Aaron Copland

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.

-- Decca Recording⁴ Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962

This compact disc is made from analog⁵ masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal⁶, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles⁷ of water on the floor. Digital technology will now faithfully reproduce these noisy, low-fi, un-professional masters at great expense. feel stupid yet?

-- Disclaimer on a CD

Hell is a half-filled auditorium⁸.

-- Robert Frost

Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.

-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric⁹ for a piece from "The Sound of Music"

If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.

-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

-- Aldous Huxley

Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

-- H. L. Mencken

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

-- Michel de Montaigne

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

-- Elvis Presley

Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.

-- Fred Rogers, parody¹⁰ of "Row, row, row your boat" on his television show, "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood."

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem¹¹.

-- George Bernard Shaw

Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.

-- Richard Strauss, on conducting

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

-- Igor Stravinsky

"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey¹² Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs¹³.

-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Wheaton College Graduation, 1995

Assassins!

-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra

Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.

-- Voltaire

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

-- Oscar Wilde

Musical people always want one to be perfectly¹⁴ dumb at the very moment when one is longing¹⁵ to be perfectly deaf.

-- Oscar Wilde

Most rock journalism¹⁶ is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.

-- Frank Zappa

2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.

-- inside of a Pepsi cap

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1 tune
n.调子；和谐，协调；v.调音，调节，调整
参考例句：
He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子，并在钢琴上弹给我们听。 The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。

2 anonymous
adj.无名的；匿名的；无特色的
参考例句：
Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。 The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。

3 remarkable
adj.显著的，异常的，非凡的，值得注意的
参考例句：
She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。 These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。

4 recording
n.录音，记录
参考例句：
How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间？ I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。

5 analog
n.类似物，模拟
参考例句：
The analog signal contains high-frequency video information,which helps make up the picture.模拟信号包括有助于构成图像的高频视频信息。 The analog computer measures continuously,without proceeding step by step.模拟计算机不是一步一步地进行，而是连续地进行量度。

6 dismal
adj.阴沉的，凄凉的，令人忧郁的，差劲的
参考例句：
That is a rather dismal melody.那是一支相当忧郁的歌曲。 My prospects of returning to a suitable job are dismal.我重新找到一个合适的工作岗位的希望很渺茫。

7 puddles
n.水坑，（尤指道路上的）雨水坑( puddle的名词复数 )
参考例句：
The puddles had coalesced into a small stream. 地面上水洼子里的水汇流成了一条小溪。 The road was filled with puddles from the rain. 雨后路面到处是一坑坑的积水。来自《简明英汉词典》

8 auditorium
n.观众席，听众席；会堂，礼堂
参考例句：
The teacher gathered all the pupils in the auditorium.老师把全体同学集合在礼堂内。 The stage is thrust forward into the auditorium.舞台向前突出，伸入观众席。

9 lyric
n.抒情诗，歌词；adj.抒情的
参考例句：
This is a good example of Shelley's lyric poetry.这首诗是雪莱抒情诗的范例。 His earlier work announced a lyric talent of the first order.他的早期作品显露了一流的抒情才华。

10 parody
n.打油诗文，诙谐的改编诗文，拙劣的模仿；v.拙劣模仿，作模仿诗文
参考例句：
The parody was just a form of teasing.那个拙劣的模仿只是一种揶揄。 North Korea looks like a grotesque parody of Mao's centrally controlled China,precisely the sort of system that Beijing has left behind.朝鲜看上去像是毛时代中央集权的中国的怪诞模仿，其体制恰恰是北京方面已经抛弃的。

11 requiem
n.安魂曲，安灵曲
参考例句：
I will sing a requiem for the land walkers.我会给陆地上走的人唱首安魂曲。 The Requiem is on the list for today's concert.《安魂曲》是这次音乐会的演出曲目之一。

12 jersey
n.运动衫
参考例句：
He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。 They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致，都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。

13 maniacs
n.疯子（maniac的复数形式）
参考例句：
Hollywood films misrepresented us as drunks, maniacs and murderers. 好莱坞电影把我们歪曲成酒鬼、疯子和杀人凶手。来自辞典例句 They're not irrational, potentially homicidal maniacs, to start! 他们不是非理性的，或者有杀人倾向的什么人！来自电影对白

14 perfectly
adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地
参考例句：
The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。 Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

15 longing
n.（for）渴望
参考例句：
Hearing the tune again sent waves of longing through her.再次听到那首曲子使她胸中充满了渴望。 His heart burned with longing for revenge.他心中燃烧着急欲复仇的怒火。

16 journalism
n.新闻工作，报业
参考例句：
He's a teacher but he does some journalism on the side.他是教师，可还兼职做一些新闻工作。 He had an aptitude for journalism.他有从事新闻工作的才能。

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